They're also well-known for the ridiculous amount of fanservice they provide their fans with (but that's nothing new), and the... enthusiasm and possessiveness of said fans. While Super Junior still plays up the Ho Yay, their fans have relatively calmed down in later years.

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Members

Leeteuk

Heechul

Ryewook

Eunhyuk

Donghae

Shindong

Kangin

Sungmin

Yesung

Siwon

Kyuhyun

Kibum (inactive since 2009 to focus on acting)

Henry (Super Junior M)

Zhoumi (Super Junior M)

Former members

Han Geng (Korean name Hankyung): Left and sued SM Entertainment, and has since then pursued a solo career in China.

A minor example but no one has really heard from Kibum since he stopped performing with the group and he even stopped posting on social media for a while. Not long after the Mamacita promotions began, he posted to his twitter again - and fans exploded with happiness.

They made many appearances in other artists' videos. Kibum was in The Grace's "My Everything", Siwon was in Girls' Generation's "Hoot", Sungmin acted in Dong Bang Shin Ki's Banjun drama episode as Yoochun's childhood friend, and so on.

By the other hand, some of their MVs had guests: Girls' Generation's Yoona was in "U" and "Marry U" predebut, Jessica was in "Super Girl", Girls' Generation's Sunny was in "Cooking Cooking" and Fx's Victoria was in Suju-M's "U" before f(x) made their debut.

Family Business: So far, the members have been advertising small businesses opened by their relatives:

MEIHUA DUMPLINGS is Hangeng's mom's business in Beijing.

Yesung's family opened Handel & Gretel coffee shop first, which would be closed some time later to open the Mouse Rabbit coffee shop. The shop is run by Yesung and his brother as baristas. Also, Y Style belongs to Yesung's dad.

Kona Beans Café is owned by Kyuhyun, Sungmin and Leeteuk's mothers.

Eunhyuk's mom owns a branch of Tous Les Jours bakery.

Siwon was a temporary partner (for three months) of Twosome Coffee. He also averts the trope; his father owns a minimarket chain, but Siwon opted to follow the entertainment business against his father's wishes. He eventually accepted Siwon's carreer.

Kyuhyun's dad owns three Korean language schools in Taiwan. The schools are reported to have as many as 1,800 students.

"Shindong's DraQra PC Castle", an internet Café. Guess who owns it. He also has an online shopping mall.

Grill5, a taco restaurant owned by Donghae's family, with Dongwha as manager. Before it came the brothers' cafe in Taiwan, The Grand Place.

Aside from the obvious Engrish abuse from their shows like 'Full House', Heechul also had fun teaching Hankyung many Korean swear words.

Everyone apparently had fun teaching Henry ridiculous pick-up lines.

Funny Foreigner: Originally Hankyung, whose early humor in variety shows mostly came from his difficulty to speak Korean and how the others pranked him by taking advantage of this. Then Henry and Zhou Mi and similar hilarity ensued. All are Chinese.

Genre Roulette: The core group's six albums so far cover bubblegum pop, ballads of all sorts, contemporary R&B, electropop/synthpop, and an example of their label's own unique style, SMP, which mixes pop, rock and orchestral music. There's also a song on their sixth album that sounds a bit like the lovechild of trot and dubstep.

Korean Drama: Several of them have played roles in different dramas. Most popular perhaps is Rainbow Romance, which featured six of the boys in its last season (although only Kibum and Heechul were members of the main cast).

Kangin as well. In one of their early shows, the members had to work together to wake him up by pulling duct tape off of him and spraying water on him.

Older Than They Look: Most of the boys haven't physically aged since their debut in 2005. Especially Leeteuk and Heechul who were born in 1983.

Pet the Dog: Heechul enjoyed making fun of Chinese member Hankyung for his own enjoyment, yet when Hankyung was insulted with racist remarks by people outside of their dorms, Heechul and several of the others went out to beat the guys up.

While in the middle of a mob of Chinese fans at an airport, Donghae let out a frustrated "Move, fuck!" and was immediately attacked for it.

An incident in December 2011 during which SM Entertainment's mistreatment of them affected their fans as well pushed some of the boys too far, leading to a series of outbursts on Twitter—including the religious, gentlemanly Siwon.

A minor one: Henry's appearance on Weekly Idol started with a game they like to play where they cut and mixed up sections of his song "1-4-3" to see if he would still be able to dance to it smoothly. He didn't the first two times which led to him getting a powerful flick to the forehead and a (rubber) hammer to his head. The third time, he almost had it but then he paused and said "SHOOOOOOOOOT!" He was then treated to something called Seoul Sightseeing. It had nothing to do with sightseeing.

Kibum started his indefinite hiatus in 2009 in pursuit of an acting career.

Kangin after his Bar Brawl and DUI hit and run. He later joined the South Korean military for his two years of mandatory service instead of returning to the group.

Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: One of the main attributes of Super Junior, unlike other boybands, is how unique and different from each other are every single one of them. There's the Mr. Fanservice Siwon, the flamboyant Heechul, the Big Fun Shindong, The Cutie Ryeowook, the Badass Adorable Sungmin, the Brainy Brunette Kyuhyun, Team Mom Leeteuk, Lovable Jock Kangin, butt monkey Eunhyuk, the adorkable Donghae, the Token Minority Chinese member Hangeng, the strange yet talented Yesung and The Quiet One Kibum. It has been said also that the group was made of all the trainees who didn't seem to fit in other groups for not meeting "specific characteristics", and even the agency didn't expect for Super Junior 05' to gather a good fanbase.

Real Men Wear Pink: Heechul and Sungmin especially love wearing pink, but all have done so at some point.

Rummage Sale Reject: Pretty much everybody in the fifth album concept photos had weird mismatching outfits, with Leeteuk◊ being one of the worst with his two red and blue coats and colourful... rope Sarashi.

Where lover = TV wife, with Leeteuk (a) calling his We Got Married partner Kang Sora up on stage during his "She" number in Super Show 4 for a "proposal", and (b) allegedly writing a love song for her in their sixth album.

Leeteuk (one of the more cheerful, upbeat and talkative members) is an extreme case of Type A. When asked about his life with his parents as a child, Leeteuk revealed while crying that not only was their relationship bad, but they abused him often to the point where he began hating and being afraid of his own father — yet for the most part, he continues to smile. It's very sad and eerie to watch. He also used to run a club for depressed idols, to back this up a little.

All of Super Junior and even most idols could be considered a watered down case of this too. Depression is very common within the Kpop scene, although Leeteuk does seem to be a very worrying example of it being a reality.

Shindong proposed to his not-so-secret girlfriend in the Thanks To notes for their fourth album. In a number code, that was cracked by fans before it was cracked by any of the other members or his girlfriend. They eventually and unfortunately broke up later on, however.

Leeteuk dragged his "wife" Kang Sora on-stage to propose at a concert, serenading her while handing her a rose then presenting the ring. Which turned out to be too big. So he hugged her to make up for it.

Turns out the attacks with shit bags made the targets even more popular than before, and that's the reason Siwon, Heechul and Kangin are trying to get attacked as well.

After Donghae discovers this and confronts Kibum, he expresses how annoying it turned when the attack backfired, so for the last attack, they make Donghae popular. Donghae later states being famous is annoying as well.

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